Should gay marriage be legal? On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constitution in all 50 states.

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Eleanor Charlotte Butler and Sarah Ponsonby by an unknown artist c1810-23. Illustration: courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London For all its emotional intensity, this was not the language of gay marriage but of a patriarchal ruler.

Though marriage is now seen as love between equals, throughout history it has had a radically different definition

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term was originally used to mean “carefree”, “happy”, or …

Gay history, gay art, homosexual mythology, gay love poems and articles on homosexuality from various world cultures, spanning ancient times to the present. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Europe, Turkey, Arabia, …

Covers U.S. and European history before the 19th century, the 1950s and 1960s, the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, and the 1980s through today.

May 17, 2004 · The champagne is chilled, the cakes are frosted, and gay and lesbian couples across Massachusetts are ready to make history Monday by saying

Gay Marriage is historical fact. It was accepted throughout Europe over the centuries and should be accepted today since gay marriage poses no threat to heterosexual marriage.

This is a history of same-sex unions in cultures around the world. Various types of same-sex unions have existed, ranging from informal, unsanctioned, and temporary relationships to highly ritualized unions that have included marriage.